BYU
2-0AP #11Big 12 · Kalani Sitake, year 11 (86-45) · LaVell Edwards Stadium · 63,470 · 64,243 avg in 2026
LastW 28–17 vs Arizona · Sat Sep 12 · Tausili Akana 2.5 sacks, 2.5 TFL, 4 tackles
Nextat Colorado State · Sat Sep 19 · 7:30 pm ET · Canvas Stadium · BYU by 17.5 · series 39-27-3, won the last 7 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
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FBS rankings · 2026 season · all stats vs 136 FBS programs
| Player | # | G | Cmp/Att | Pct | Yds | Y/A | TD | INT | Rate | ZPR | QBR | Adj ANY/A | Sack% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.50 EPA/play | 47 | 2 | 32 / 46 | 69.6 | 415 #72 FBS | 9.0 | 6 #14 FBS | 0 | 188.4 | 61 | 90.7 | — | — | |
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| Player | # | G | Car | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | Stuff% | 10+% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.07 EPA/play | 4 | 2 | 27 | 152 #58 FBS | 5.6 | 0 | 20 | — | — | |
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| Player | # | G | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +1.16 EPA/play | 1 | 2 | 6 | 139 | 23.2 | 2 #24 FBS | 61 | |
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| +0.46 EPA/play | 3 | 2 | 8 | 93 | 11.6 | 2 #24 FBS | 29 | |
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| +0.02 EPA/play | 7 | 2 | 5 | 44 | 8.8 | 0 | 18 | |
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| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | TFL | Sack | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 98 | — | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | Ast | TFL | Sack | PD | INT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 #22 FBS | |
| 16 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | PD | INT | TFL | Sack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cover Corner | 32 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cover CornerSteady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play. 13 of 24 CBs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt PD rate10.0% 55th percentile · FBS corners, min. 10 tackles Plays like View Cannon DeVries's full player page | |||||||
| 11 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 15 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| — | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 #22 FBS | 0 | 0 | |
| Player | # | G | FG M/A | FG% | XP M/A | Pts | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | 2 | 0/1 | 0 | 10/10 | 10 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | No | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 2 | 6 | 284 | 47.3 | 54 | 1 | 0 |
Net average is unavailable — CFBD's punting feed carries gross yards only, with no return-yardage or touchback deduction.
2026 stat leaders · BYU
through 2 games
2026 stat leaders · BYULegend Glasker leads BYU with 139 receiving yards through 2 games.
How They Play · 2025BYU fields a strong methodical, ball-control offense behind an elite, bend-don't-break defense.
Percentile vs all FBS, based on this season's per-game production. Bar = where this team ranks — right is better.
BYU reads strongest in passing epa allowed (top 13%) and epa allowed (top 16%); the crux lives in explosive plays, where BYU sits at the 17th percentile.
offense · strengths lead
defense · higher bar = harder to play against
hidden math · special situations
Home-field advantage · BYU · 2018–present · FBS opponents
BYU is worth +3.1 points more at home than on the road.
Bottom third of FBS, 31st percentile of 133 programs
74% at home, 61% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (31–11 home, 27–17 away). Interval ±3.7.
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge — per-team modelling was tested and did not survive scrutiny (why) — and the books use about 3. Against the closing line, BYU has beaten the number by −0.9 more at home than away over 70 games — inside the ±6.7 that many games can resolve. Results here cannot tell the flat number apart from the building, and that is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.
LaVell Edwards Stadium seats 63,470 and has averaged 98% full (62,231, 26 games reported). Visitors face the 5th-longest trip of 135 FBS venues: a median 841 miles since 2018. The map isn't translating, though — the split above still reads bottom third of fbs. For the home side it is genuinely home ground: 48% of the 2026 roster (69 of 144 located players) grew up inside 100 miles of the stadium.
Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 51 home games since 2018.
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Scheme claims
Fourth-quarter reliability, corrected
BYU's 4th-quarter offense, before and after garbage time
Raw Q4 EPA/play ranks 82nd percentile in FBS. Strip out snaps taken with a blowout margin and it climbs to the 84th — the correction is the finding, not a footnote.
Tendency drift
Season by season
How BYU’s current staff calls plays, year over year
Ratings
Comparable teams
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Matched on how the programs are built — tier, prestige band, kind of fanbase, conference, voice and roster size — not on this season's stats. A calibration, not a prediction.
Conditions
60°F average kickoff temp; 3% of games had measurable precipitation; 6 mph average wind.
Based on 74 home games with weather data.